The Mortal Ingredients

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Hiatus

Author

re:live

Reviews

Community Reviews(5)

• MurphysLawRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Honestly it's pretty darn good. Better spelling and grammar then what's on here a lot of the time. Plots good so far, pacing could use a little work around the time he travels.
• GraySinclairRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  The story had me hooked up until chapter 4, and from there, it was downhill for me.
  I really liked the introduction of Joshua, he seemed a relatable character (We've all had the same exact thoughts about school), and I loved his interactions with his crush, I can't remember her name, it was only mentioned once or twice. Still, she was a unique character, and I wanted to get to see more of their dynamic. But as soon as their interactions start going somewhere, Josh gets whisked off to an alternate reality. The blurb warned of it, so it wasn't jarring, just a little disappointing after I got to liking the girl she falls out of the story (wonder what plot device the author will use to bring her back?).
  Then we're in Ethria, literally dropped into the princess bedroom, which was great. I loved how the story started there. From there, we get a bit of info-dumping, but it wasn't nearly as bad as some stories, so I'll give it a pass. The way dialogue is written makes it hard to tell who is sometimes speaking without the aid of tags, which there aren't many of them. That's the biggest grammar issue I found; otherwise, the author's writing is good, even excellent at times. And I found myself enthralled with the story and wanting to read more, which is when, of course, it takes a sharp turn.
  Within a chapter and a half, Josh goes from prisoner to an audience with the king (btw telling both the king and the princess to fuck off was brilliant!) but then right at the peak of my excitement with the story, Joshua completely switches personalities. Instead of the freaked out highschool/ college kid nervously asking out his crush who is thrust into a new world he instantly becomes a dom and subjugates the princess, in their first conversation, he makes her virtually his slave.
  Then he gets a really cool power, but in under a couple of hours, he's mostly mastered it enough to break into high-security systems, and the princess is already starting to fall in love with him. I like harem
• PickyReaderRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  This novel is more or less a power trip fantasy about a man who gets dropped into another world and then the governing ai of said world chooses him to be her "master". Until it's not, part way through the novel that premise gets scrapped and it turns into another one of those cliche "10 people in the world secretly have superpowers but only one remains standing at the end" things, I'm sure there's a name for it considering how plentiful and dull they are but you get the idea.
  I still face this a 3.5 despite the fact that its built around disappointing the reader because I think it does as well as it can with the handicaps given, I didn't note any obvious writing errors which is a cut above most of the novels on this site and the interactions between the characters are actually pretty well done. If the author had avoided the trap of writing a simple "last man standing game" trope I think this could've been one of the best novels on the site.
• 123abdiRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  overall really interesting worldbuilding here and i can say this story really has potential...Is it bad that I want the Mc to be Bi... lol
  but either way, the BDSM thing is cool, but it won't be if it ends with the MC thinking with his bottom half. It's nice to see harem novels where the ML knows better than to hook up with terrible women just because they're beautiful.
  also, the ML's character is a bit bipolar but hopefully, after a few chapters he'll find a goal for himself other than avoiding manipulation
• FrantelRoyal Road

  ★ 0.5

  The author kill his own story at chapter 30, after chapter 20 it went downhill pretty fast, what a waste, such a shame... It really had good potential, but well... It felt rushed and goaless